/usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:22:48 -0500, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> Will portsnap improvement on to not delete any unoffical ports? I have
>> about 15 unoffical ports here in local machine and they are living in
>> /usr/ports for other tools' sake like portupgrade/pkgdb. I have never
>> use  it, but I read in the bottom of  
>> http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/ .
>
> Portsnap will not remove any ports which it doesn't know about.  Portsnap
> will only remove local modifications when they are in a port or  
> infrastructure
> file (e.g., Mk/*) which portsnap is updating to a newer version.

Good, thanks!

Cheers,
Mezz

> Colin Percival


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